And another thing! ... politics rant alert (apologies booklengthers - back to things writing soon)

 

I have another concern, related to the mentality that has led to cuts in the Health Department - our current State Government thinking in relation to funding human services. Doesn't it make sense to work at the prevention rather than the patch-up end of things?

Are they swimming in complacency with the knowledge of another few years before an election????

So now the thing is to cut staff in SCHOOLS of all things, and even more ridiculous, teachers, and teacher assistants.

Was it the full moon? I just don't get it. Last time I looked (i.e. last week) the schools needed more teachers and teacher assistants in the classrooms, not less. Not fewer.

Maybe education just isn't important. That can be the only explanation it seems, for firstly turning down squillions offered by the federal government for education because they were batting for the other team, and now cutting the capacity for kids to learn, by reducing teaching and support staff in the schools.

It's people we're talking about here, first vulnerable people in the health system, and now kids. Just wondering if anyone cares up there at the big house on the hill.